Evolving from a first work and making more complex the expression of his thought – Cuban artist Jose Clemente Gascon Martinez brings us his new abstract painting exposition: “The Redundancy of the Pendulum”. The show is up through Sunday July 14th, at the Fajad Jamis Gallery in Alamar on the outskirts of Havana. (20 photos)
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On May 11th, a diverse group of people took part in the Anti-Homophobia, Gay Rights afternoon march along Havana’s Prado Avenue, days after the government cancelled the official annual parade. (15 photos)
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The march against animal abuse that took place in Havana on April 7th, can be put into the category of “firsts” in the history of these events. (14 photos)
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Manuela Grau and Alfredo Gibert Flores make up the group “Amig@s (amigaos) por el Cuento”. They visited Cuba for the International “Cuenta Habana” Storytelling Festival”. They performed at different venues across the capital and in another province in Cuba.
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“Ojos del Alma” is an exhibition by Dioblan Hernandez Torres, a Mechanical Engineer turned artist, that was recently taken down at the Fajad Jamos Art Gallery in Alamar, and now part of it just opened on Saturday at the Frida Kahlo Gallery, in Central Havana’s Cultural Center located on Carlos III Avenue. It will be there until March 9th.
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Andres Oscar Lahera Carbo, a cheery, daring young man who is in love with “The Art of Living Foundation”, is this group’s coordinator here in Cuba. It came to the Island in 2015 with Francisco Moreno from Argentina. “I learned about Meditation, Reiki, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, ” explained Lahera. (18 photos)
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Joining the continental event “America Meditates”, the Art of Living group in Cuba summoned everyone who was interested in being a part of the bridge through meditation. Cuba connected with the rest of Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia and maybe other Latin American countries in a call for peace and wellbeing via meditation. (25 photos)
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With a one-person presentation: “Women who love for better or worse”, oral story-teller Mirta Portillo came to perform at Havana’s Casa de la Poesia, last Thursday September 26th. Linking stories about five Marias, the narrator revealed lives that would be common for any woman anywhere in the world. (22 photos)
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The “Espacio Abierto” Gallery is putting on a painting exhibition called “Las tentaciones del ingenio” (Naif temptations). The show is of the works of painter and teacher Jose Clemente Gascon Martinez. (17 photos)
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We have become accustomed to seeing a special kind of ethnography of Havana neighborhoods reflected in Luis Lamothe Duribe’s work, from the memory we have of his first exhibitions (which “Multitud” formed a part of) and this has imprinted itself as a mark of this Havana artist’s art in our minds. (13 photos)
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